everyone e-mail us, whatever you want, tell us your favorite ad and tell us why. if you just enjoyed it or was it effective? >>steve: brian, when you were doing your pitch, you just had a blackout. >>brian: sorry about that. >>steve: just like that. there from the lawyer's office. don't touch the cam rafplt also, folks out there, according to entergy, it was simply an abnormality. what do you think caused the power to go out last night? new orleans at the superdome? e-mail us that as well. >>gretchen: i thought you were asking brian. brian, read a few more books while we go to commercial break. while i read some headlines, and we'll come back and see -- >>steve: you want to hear out of the book instead of the headlines? >>brian: there are almost daily complaints about some aspect of drug usage in our society. >>gretchen: that could be a headline. >>steve: that's deep. >>gretchen: in a few hours president obama will ramp up his campaign-style push for new gun control legislation. he's heading to minnesota to focus on that state's efforts to curb gun violence. the p